My personal opinions about saber battles aside, this level did not have me expecting much initially. As soon as I saw the title I had visions of JK level 21: part 2 dancing through my head. However, I was mildly surprised with this level. While it might not something worth keeping on your HD for years and years, it left a much better impression then I initially thought.

There's nothing to say here. This was the one aspect that I ended up predicting correctly. It's level 21 all over again, right down to the texturing and lighting.

The positions of you and Jerec are exactly the same as in the JK version. Yun starts next to you. Moving on to item placement... everything's exactly the same here too. Finally, we get to something original. There are several new enhancements here that make this level more enjoyable. For starters, there's a (sort of) brand new force power for JK: Force Impel. Basically, think of a much more powerful version of Force Push. In fact, Force Impel is so powerful that if you use it on someone who is standing near a straight wall (angle between the wall and floor is 900) his health will drop from 100 to 0 upon impact with the wall. It's that powerful. Kyle and Yun have some new outfits which look pretty nice. Yun's AI is also new, which I'll go into a little later. Rounding it off, there's a new cutscene in the beginning, complete with new WAV's (the author's voice).

The only thing I can talk about for the atmosphere was the actual battle. The addition of Yun makes the level a lot easier, which isn't necessarily a good thing. Fortunately, you fail if Yun dies so you can't just sit and watch the battle work itself out. Also, Yun must have taken some practice lessons along the way, because he's a much better fighter. Not only does Yun have the new Force Impel, he also has Blinding, Lightning, and Jump. He's also a lot more aggressive, pursuing Jerec to the end and never letting up. He also seems to be smarter in his use of force powers too. For example, there was one time where Jerec was hurt to the point that he started to make a beeline right for the force stream. However, Yun stood in his way. Jerec tried to Force Jump over him. At the peak of his jump, Yun used Force Impel and Force Blind on him. Jerec shoots straight up to the top of the arena, and begins to fall (this is long drop mind you) back down to the ground. Just before impact, Yun zaps him with a lightning blast. Jerec hits the ground with a sickening crunch, and then Yun hits him with a double slash from his saber. Jerec dies... game over. At first I thought this was a fluke, but Yun continued to execute these kinds of killer combinations. I don't know if the was intentional by the author or if he just picked the right force powers to give a certain character, but it sure made my job easier. In fact, the whole level was way too easy. There is no excuse now for letting Jerec reach the force stream. Just Force Impel him away from it. Another thing that impressed me was that there weren't any bugs with either jedi. They never got stuck, and you were never hindered if you did something in a different sequence. As far as realism issues go I could only find one that was legitimate (aside from my own personal opinions). I'd like to know how Kyle got his lightsaber back. In the level Kyle holds a green saber. However his was broken by Boc after he escaped the cargo ship. Really, all the author needed to do was change the color to blue, indicating that Kyle pried it off of Sariss. It's a minor complaint, but it's still worth mentioning. Framerate won't be an issue, and I couldn't find any bugs. All in all, it's a clean level.

It's a fun saber battle, and I enjoyed the new force power as well as Yun's AI. However, it needs to be a lot more original (the fact that the design is entirely the same detracts from the fun), not to mention challenging. Still, you might want to try it out anyway, and see for yourself.